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The British foundation "Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief" - established a year before to collect donations for disaster aid - was planning a benefit concert and wanted him to take part.ģ50,000 fans attended the the legendary concert at Berlin's Potsdamer Platz Memory and history as main themes When asked about his departure in an interview, and whether he would ever perform the rock-opera again, his answer was crystal clear: "No." He said he might think about it if the Berlin Wall fell.įive years later, the unimaginable moment came and Waters immediately received a request. This led to disputes between the band members and Waters leaving the band in 1985.
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Roger Waters wrote most of the songs on the album, and the singer and bassist demanded full creative control.
Today, The Wall holds the record for best-selling double-album and has maintained a place on the list of the 30 most successful albums ever sold.īut Pink Floyd's success was also a reason for the band's demise. It had even spurred a 1982 musical film based on the album starring Bob Geldof. Prior to the concert in Berlin, the album had sold 19 million copies globally and been performed a total of 31 times in the US, London, and Dortmund. Released in 1979, the album The Wall was a significant stylistic change for Pink Floyd, but one that only added to their success. In 1990, the album was already 11 years old. It wasn't a given that the concert would be a success. Pink Floyd fans wore pink masks at the history-making concert Record-breaking album
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Taking part were an estimated 350,000 fans in the audience and hundreds of millions of spectators watching on their TV sets at home.
Thirty years later, the answer is clear: with a rock spectacle that presented a shared realm of experience for a country that, within a few months, would be newly reunified. After so many years of separation and systemic confrontation between East and West, how would they ever communicate? The lyric could practically be a reference to the challenges that reunited Germany faced in 1990. In the song "Empty Spaces," the protagonist of the album, Pink, says: "What shall we use to fill the empty spaces where we used to talk?" There were helicopters, the brass band of the Russian Red Army, and musical contributions from legends including Bryan Adams, Cyndi Lauper and the iconic rock group Scorpions. Organizers brought in cranes that would be used to maneuver gigantic marionette figures. The 550-foot-high and 135-foot-deep mega-stage on Potsdamer Platz took four weeks and some 600 people to build. Instead, it would be a benefit concert of massive proportions.
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It was Mostly lost to a remade version for the movie due to the live projections having a different ratio than the movie screen, thus causing them to remake it. This version, had more scenes, such as a jury, objects turning into people, and a red version of the judge. It’s known for it’s completely animated scene from the wall movie, which was a reused screen projecting from the 1980-81 wall promotional tour. The second to final song on the album, the trial, represents the climax of the album, in which Pink is judged by his conscience for interacting with the world.
The wall, unique for a musical album, has a plot, where the main character, Pink, isolates himself from the world.
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